jenius

Seto you are too involved with the RT.com boards. I read a thread where you bashed a moron who seemed to have no understanding of several simple concepts for three pages (Macross7). You sound like you have a lot going on, don't waste so much time on imbeciles. Sometimes I'm tempted to say things on that board just to watch you fly off the handle... in fact, I'm pretty sure I've done that to you there. You can tell I have too much time when I drop in the stories section and say "Man, Leonard was a moron." With the fights you're picking I keep getting the feeling you're a man with way too much time on his hands.

Yeah Darrin, I agree, looks like a silly oversight.

Well done... in the beginning I was expecting a BSG type tempo change to the music (slow stuff in the intro and then a "huh!" followed by fast paced music with lots of action shots). I think that would have worked also but this worked out fine on its own.

They're white in both shows so it's kinda up to Yamato how they want to differentiate but most people associate the gray with the TV version because of Takatoku (and then Bandai).

Remember it as blurry, tiny, and poorly animated... it's much better than actually seeing pictures of it... that thing is hideous.

I'm in NorCal and I've been seeing it to. I'm not patient enough to wait for an actual error though, I just close the page when I see it's taking a long time to load.

Easy to say when you have no idea what crazy price tag they'd slap on it.

That kid has the coolest dad ever.

DYRL paint schemes are pretty boring, I'm hoping the Frontier ones don't follow.

There's one of those also... but there have been no less than two promo shots of a weathered 1/48 VF-1J Hikaru as part of the Macross Chronicles deal.

Hey hey, the 1/48 line is not done, it will continue to be milked! Kakizaki's TV variant is probably only a couple months from release and then who knows? Isn't there also a weathered Hikaru 1J that's supposed to come out at some point?

My August and September look like they're going to be pretty busy but I'll keep an eye on this thread and see if I can make it.

Just a simple exchange rate difference... there are lots of places to pull an exchange rate from and small variances are common.

I had just about all the 1/48s at one point (except a few DYRL paint jobs). Now I just have Roy's 1S, Hik's Super 1J, both LVs, Max's TV 1A, a Super/Strike Stealth, and a 25th anniversary 1S. Crap, that's still a lot of 1/48s. I really hate how much room the 1/48s take up. I'm being much smarter about the new 1/60s though... just getting the ones I absolutely want and think look cool. I've sold my Max, Milia, and Cannon Fodder shrines and that cleared up a ton of room and is saving me a lot of money on all these new releases.

Wasn't Kakizaki released after Max? Maybe that's when they made that change.

Can you draw circles where the differences are? I can't see them...

I know nothing about toy rights or licenses. Do you think it'd be possible for him to show the bags attached to that bike and just sale them as "Accessory bags for toy bikes" and never mention Mospeada?

Yeah, and Southern Cross mechs!!!!!!! (that's a joke).

Thanks for those who brougth that post back up. I went and fixed the links in it and updated the 1/60 V2 section to mention the upgrades in the upcoming releases and the fragile shoulders of the first run of Roy's VF-1S

Because the schedule I saw just had it listed as VF-1S Focker Type.... and I wanted so much to believe they wouldn't paint something bright yellow and call it LowVis. Now what do we do if we want the original 1/48 LV scheme in 1/60? Clamoring for that is going to be confusing.

When bright yellow becomes a "low vis" color I'll start liking that. I've seen store listings calling it LowVis though but I didn't see anything from Yamato calling it that... but then again I don't read Japanese.

I believe the description calls it "prototype colors" and gives that short descritpion of this being Roy's first VF-1S before he was given the white one. So, I'm sticking with "prototype colors"

A 1/35 VF-1 would be something to behold...

Jetfire did appear in some early promotional materials also, this might be what has you convinced he was in the actual TV show Macrossman. If I recall correctly, and it's quite possible I don't since I'm not a huge Transformers guy, when Takatoku went out of business Matsuhiro picked up the molds to the VF-1 (Matsuhiro having had some sort of business relationship which allowed them to grab whatever they wanted to repay debts). Matsuhiro grabbed the molds, didn't really bother too much with licensing, and made a deal to sell a ton of VF-1 toys to the West as a Transformer. Unfortunately, at a very similar time, Robotech was coming into formation. As HG had officially paid for the rights to the VF-1 outside of Japan they were bound to have some issues but the genie was already out of the bottle. The immediate legal "WTF?" session ended with an agreement that the VF-1 would never appear in Transformers.

The inspiration for the Angelbirds paint scheme was school girl uniforms in Japan, it was kind of an in-joke and that's what Roy Focker is referencing.